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Enabling Technologies

Finding information on accessibility hardware and software can be challenging. This section has been designed to help you overcome this challenge by pointing tosome sources of information on a range of accessibility technology facilities.

The list below is not exhaustive but is a good starting point...remember to talk to your student about their experiences of using such technologies, in education, the workplace or at home.

For technologies that may help make your teaching more interactive check out the Learning Technologies area under the Learning and Teaching Section

Hardware and Software

TechDIS - general guide on using assistive technologies
TechDIS database of assistive technologies
Enablemart

Software

Clicker, Read/Write Gold, Readable,Wordbar (examples for dyslexia)
Dragon Naturally Speaking
Jaws (example of a screen reader for blind student)
Liberator Copperhead (symbol based communication)
Vox Proxy (animation characters for Powerpoint - helps with ADHD)

Hardware

Contact Kate Guy on 028 90974417 or c.guy@rsc-ni.ac.uk for further assistance

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